PS teaches you to create enchanted colorful neon text

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Just started to learn design, the master said to me, you have to achieve the level of perfection, that is to see any advertising map can immediately know how to implement in Ps. This is not technical analysis, it will become a designer's instinct, like a sense of smell. So, I often in the window to watch all kinds of posters, all kinds of graphics. Indeed, in the design of this road, and the software get along well, their own creative ability to play more fully.

Well, after saying the technical content, I still insist that the technology will never be the first place. Inspiration is the first place. Today, we learn this tutorial on how to make neon effects in photoshop text. There may be a lot of people who have seen this tutorial before, but what I'm saying is that absolutely not every method of effect is stereotyped. Indeed, the use of technology also requires inspiration. We still have a lot of ways to go on this road.

　　First, the production background

To make the text of the neon effect, first we have to talk about the background. The background must be dark, why?

Create a new 1920px*1080 file, which is the size of the Mac. This is the best size when we do a scrolling web page of the ad map. However, the specific size, still depends on the actual needs of your project.

Fill a black background layer, and then create a new layer. Set the foreground color to black, the background color to white, and go to filter > Render > Cloud to add clouds to the layer. If the cloud does not work at once, you can also use the shortcut key combination "Ctrl+f" to repeat the operation several times.

Create a new layer above the cloud layer, use the gradient tool, and set a radial gradient of blue (#15aec4) to Black (#000000) (the blue here is the main color I use in this example, you can refer to it, or you can use your own color). When the gradient layer is done, adjust the layer blending mode of the gradient layer to "multiply".

After a positive overlay, the style is as follows:

Now let's copy this layer again (CTRL+J) out of two layers, one blending mode to "overlay", the top of the layer, the other layer above the original layer, blending mode unchanged.

Then, with the free transform tool, the top layer is shortened to two-thirds of the original size, and the other layer is shortened to the original One-third. This is to create an environment of three-dimensional, so, not only our main object of the background needs color effect, but also have the feeling of reflection. So, to literally understand the students who are still not very clear, you can look at the picture below.

By this step, the background is finished. You can put the above layer into the new group "background", and then continue to do the rest of the steps on top of the background.

Second, create neon effect text

Drag the good text ID into it, place it above the layer, and place it in the middle, just to the point where it stands at the boundary of the three-point effect background. This will make it look more stereoscopic.

Copy the identified layer one layer, and then temporarily turn off the duplicate layer. Add a blending style of gradient overlay to the identity layer. Gradient settings can refer to my color, of course, with the main color with the line, the angle of 0 linear gradient. After the gradient overlay and then add "Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur" to the layer, the blur size is 18px, the size of the main look at your logo size, so that the final effect as shown in the following figure.

At this point, you can open the duplicate layer just hidden, the duplicate layer first grid, hold down the CTRL key to select the layer, the purpose is to pull out the layer of the selection. Then go to "SELECT > Modify > Shrink" to shrink the selection by 2 pixels. Then turn the layer off, create a new layer in the selection, and fill it with white.

The purpose of our shrinking constituency is to create a finer mark than the original text, which I often use when creating a light effect, especially when the light effect is a finer strip shape, and the contraction of the top layer produces a concentrated effect.

Next, we add the Gaussian blur to the top layer, and the blur size is 2px.

And then, let's add a layer style to it, and first, I'll drop the opacity of this layer to 90%, and the padding down to 0. Next, I want to add the outer glow to it, the outer glow of the setting panel parameters are as follows:

Add a color overlay layer style, and the color overlay is white. When you are done, create a new group, add the layer to the group, and then change the group's blending mode to "color Dodge."

Some people say, color too much, look always seems not high-end, this is very good to do, find the first one has been Gaussian Blur 18px processed layer, and then superimposed a single color can be. In this PSD, can form the changeable color, the repetition usage is very high.

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